Re: the beauty of informix ontape-onbar against oracle rman

utkanbir wrote: > Dear Informix gurus , > > As for the man who started to work with oracle 9i after 7 years of > informix experience , i want to share my latest problem with oracle > and get some suggestions / corrections from you , the gurus of > informix - oracle . > I work with a datawarehouse system which runs on Linux -itanium > processor-oracle9i and emc disk array . I want to take full archive of > my system(in informix term) But i was told that rman cant backup data > directly to tape without a third party softare like legato or etc. But > those third parties have not released a version on itanium yet. So , i > have to take backups to disk than transfer to tape but within current > situation it is impossibe for me to find such a large disk area. I > know that and used lots of time ontape,onbar for data archives , they > can directly write to tape , (even when the tape device is a remote > one , this is also my case) , but why oracle cant do this ? Or is > there anyone who can tell me the fact about this? > > Kind Regards, > hope Two simple solutions. 1. Don't use RMAN. RMAN is one of many possible back-up tools ... not the only tool. Use what works in your situation. 2. Given the low price of removable disk ... back up to a removable disk. -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)